It isn't a zero sum game, but people still get rich at the expense of the poor, sometimes. There are different ways to accumulate wealth and some are better for society than others.
No surprises here. Its long been known that humans cannot improve their own mental health with machines - there have to be other humans involved in the process, helping.
This will become more and more of an issue as people look for a quick fix for their life problems, but I don't think AI/ML is ever going to be an effective mechanism for life improvement on the mental health issue.
It'll instead be used as a tool of oppression like in THX1138, where the apparency of assistance is going to be provided in lieu of actual assistance.
Whether we like it or not, humans are a hive species. We need each other to improve our lives as individuals. Nobody every climbed the mountain to live alone who didn't come back down, realizing how much the rest of humanity is actually essential to human life.
As much as I hate McDonalds and think they should go bankrupt, and as much as I hate ads in general, I enjoyed this one. It's funny, it has lots of small clips of things going wrong one after the other. Compared to the standard corporate ads with a long family- and Jesus-oriented message that pretend to give some significance to Christmas besides how it affects their profits, this one is bold and different.
Who cares if it's made by AI and has obvious mistakes? It's not the new Star Wars movie where it's expected to focus on VFX issues. It's an ad - a 30 second clip that will run for a while to get people to buy products. If you can make an ad with AI for less money, why do it without AI?
As for the message - we need more of this. It's kind of a taboo to hate Christmas, but I loathe it and everything about it. And so do many people. Maybe they won't say that in the office or around religious family members, but we do exist.
You can't escape the shitty Christmas jingles that start in late November in almost all stores. You can't escape The tacky decorations, especially the blinking lights. If you mention the wasteful spending of taxpayer money on city decorations, people look at you as if you're crazy. You have to fight the implied obligation to participate in the celebration and to exchange gifts; having to tell people not to buy me anything. And the religious aspect of it, even though it started as a pagan holiday - people showing off how Christian they are even though a lot of them only remember their faith in twice a year. And finally, the commercialization of it - corporations pretending to care about it while trying to make everyone buy more products...
Three or four generations of Kindle Scribes since 2022. Still no new Kindle Oasis. At this rate I think my Oasis is going to be a family heirloom passed down the generations, as Amazon steadfastly refuses to release an ergonomic e-reader with buttons.
Is it? Consciousness is still a phenomenon to us, and the best that current AI can do is imitate it. It may be convincing at times, but it's still so far away from the actual thing, and just throwing more data at the problem won't fix it.
Looking at its license[0], it more open-source that source-available. It has a non-compete restriction as a commercial hosted service, but otherwise you can do what you want with it.
My current project is C++ backend. I do a lot of debugging but all of it concerns business logic, some scientific calculations and the likes. In this situations having Rust will give me exactly zero benefits. As for "safety". I am a practical man and I pay my own money for development. Being able to use modern C++ I have forgotten when was the last time I had any memory related issue. My backends run for years serving many customers with no complaints in this department. Does not mean of course they're really really safe but I sleep well ;)
Your criteria is the lack of randomness and determinism by the sound of that.
What if i had an external source of entropy? Very easy to add. Would you suddenly change your mind and say ok ‘now it can be AGI!’ because i added a nuclear decay based random number generator to my ai model?
However, it only owns 3% of US debt; they are the largest non-US holder, but still a marginal holder. Basically, they deseated China for that spot of "Biggest But Still Small US 'Lender'". Both together are dwarfed by pensions, 401ks, and other US buyers and institutions.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-heres-who-owns-u-s-...
The previous Kindle Scribe had a slow refresh rate, and it showed every time you tried to turn a page. All I want so far as refresh rates are concerned is seamless page-turning – page-turning that doesn’t make me wait. Will this version of the Scribe be any better? The Wired review doesn’t say.
Unfortunately the security community is filled to the brim with incompetent schlubs chasing a paycheck and many of them find their place as trainers. Those who can't do, teach.
It's always interesting to see how many sharp edges that C, as a language, has still. I know it's a language that eschews a lot of the ergonomics found in more recent languages, but it makes me sad that we're still teaching beginners the poor form these basic operations.
I like C, but it feels like you have to have an unhealthy amount of paranoia to write it well.
I never used linux because it was built using C++. Never have a cared what language the product was built it. The Rust community however wants you to use a product just because it's implemented in Rust, or atleast as one of the selling points. For that reason I decided to avoid any product that advertises using Rust as a selling point, as much as I can. Was planning to switch from Mac to a Linux machine, not anymore, I'm upgrading my mac happily.
I will be more tempted to call something AGI when it can perform experimental interventions and imagine counterfactuals, a la Judea Pearl. I want it to be able to ask questions, design theoretical models, set up an experiment, and analyze what happened - all with no human intervention.
It’s a trivial claim that people are going to use AI as a therapist. No grumbling is going to stop that.
So it’s sensible that someone out there is evaluating its competence and thinking about a better alternative for these folks than yoloing into chatgpt.com’s default LLM.
General Intelligence has already been demonstrated to be possible by the human brain, so I don't really get how physicality is an argument against AGI. Who is to say biological computers won't be built?
